At their best, these levels are an engrossing combination of exploration, action set pieces, and unique visuals designed to draw you further into an individual’s mind, even if some do outstay their welcome and stretch on for longer than necessary. You’ll open a door to a seemingly small room that will transform Tardis-style into a whole other world.
You’ll be spoon-fed caviar, then suddenly find yourself hopping atop the fish egg and riding it to your destination. The dream-like quality of these levels allows Double Fine to lean into absurdity and surrealism, with levels winding in on themselves like an Escher painting, while the perspective of your surroundings is routinely toyed with. Each brain is littered with nods to that individual’s characteristics, and by opening memory vaults and solving puzzles, you’ll learn more about them and, in turn, Maligula.
The brain of a socially anxious man who fears being harshly judged will transport you to a ruthless game show, where you convince him that he is capable of achieving things he believes he’s too useless to achieve. The brain of a singer with abandonment issues will see you attempting to convince representations of his long-lost friends to rejoin his band. This leaves you to tactfully explore their psyche, putting together the pieces of the puzzle by entering their minds and empathizing with them. As such, you must investigate the minds of those who knew Maligula, thus learning of the trauma that she inflicted upon them. Raz learns that the mole is seemingly on a quest to bring about the return of Maligula, a super-powerful psychic who was thought dead after bringing about a cataclysmic event. Each brain you explore is an intricate examination of a character’s personality, their innermost thoughts, and - more often than not - their fears. It’s basically therapy, but if the therapist were to explore your mind by way of physically hopping inside of it. Raz achieves this by placing a doorway on their head, which serves as a portal for him to telepathically connect with them. Psychonauts 2 is split between the “real world,” which consists of the spy organization’s ‘Motherlobe’ headquarters and the mysterious woodland that surround it, and then the brains of the characters you dive into and investigate. It isn’t long before Raz is back brain-hopping, leaping into the minds of those around him in an effort to understand what makes them tick.
This inevitably changes when a brain-napping takes place and it’s ascertained that the culprit is a mole working within the Psychonauts. Unfortunately for Raz, the reality of the Psychonauts for a newbie is far less exciting than he imagined, with him relegated to admin work over fun psychic spy missions. As such, despite the lengthy period of time between development, Raz is still a young aspiring Psychonaut who has just left Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp to chase his dreams. Psychonauts 2 picks up directly from the events of Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin, the VR-only spin-off title that itself took place immediately following the original 2005 3D platformer.
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Psychonauts 2 review for PC, PS4, Xbox Series X, and Xbox One And that’s Psychonauts in a nutshell those working through mental health issues require patience and understanding, mistakes don’t necessarily make someone a bad person, and there’s always a chance for redemption. She forgives him, understands the reasons behind his mistake, and offers him a second chance. He swiftly learns that this unsolicited meddling can cause terrible damage to the recipient Hollis warns him that their job isn’t to quickly “fix” people but to help them tackle their demons on their own terms. In the one instance in which he doesn’t, he dives into the mind of the Psychonaut’s second-in-command Hollis Forsythe. Whenever Raz enters someone’s mind in Psychonauts 2, he asks for their consent beforehand.
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